Weirdware reveals a universe where computation emerges from life, chemistry, and matter itself—from maze-solving slime moulds and electrically active mushrooms to light-sensing kombucha mats, crystals that compute geometry, droplets that collide like logic gates, and finally, nanoparticles that 'learn' from experience. Drawing on decades of original laboratory research, this book explores eight astonishing forms of natural and chemical computing, showing how soft, living, and self-organizing materials process information without chips, codes, or silicon. Weirdware invites you into a future where intelligence is not manufactured, but cultivated—computers grown like mushrooms, brewed like tea, or mixed like paint.
Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Prologue: What Is a Computation?
- Slime Moulds: Nature's Soft Computers
- Fungi Sense, Signal, and Compute
- Zoogleal Mats
- Proto-Neural Chemistry: The Computing Life of Proteinoids
- Hot Ice, Cold Logic: Computing with Crystallisation
- Computing with Diffusing and Reacting chemicals
- Thinking Droplets: How Liquid Marbles Move and Compute
- Colloid Minds: How Liquids Learn and Compute
- Liquid Metal That Thinks with Its Body
- Epilogue: When Matter Starts to Think
- Further Readings and Sources
- Glossary
Readership: For researchers, university students, and creative professionals spanning the fields of computer science, bioengineering, materials science, and art and design.
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